background: one of the important etiologies for cryptogenic stroke is paradoxical embolization secondary to patent foramen ovale (pfo). foramen ovale can secondarily reopen due to pulmonary arterial hypertension (pah) which is common among the older age. pah is known as a frequent and life threatening complication of copd. the aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of pfo between cop...

d i ( i a f r i v g ( Unraveling the mysteries of cardiac contraction has been a major preoccupation of the cardiac investigators. More recently, the right ventricle is in focus, especially the right ventricle in the systemic position. The differences between the right and the left ventricles in myocardial architecture, blood supply, metabolism, response to loading conditions, and embryological...

In January 1983 the US-owned multinational Timex, a prominent employer in Dundee since 1946, announced it would cease production of mechanical wristwatches city. Substantial redundancies accompany closure Milton Craigie unit where 2,000 mainly male skilled engineers and toolmakers were employed. About female assembly-line workers be retained at another factory city, Camperdown, as Timex complet...